journalism to places that we could never have imagined before, both in the way that the news is gathered -- we use twitter and facebook together critical information after the earthquake in haiti, and about the recent elections. the way the news is distributed and engage with the audience. the business model is what is uncertain. i don't know where it is going. the answer is, we just have to experiment relentlessly and look at multiple revenue sources until we figure it out. instead of looking for the one answer to the business model for journalism, it is all about experimenting. it will take you guys to complete invent journalism -- reinvent journalism and exciting new ways. i do not have a specific answer for you, but i hope you will

have an answer for me. >> there is obviously a lot of adults in this room, but for the younger generation, how is npr engaging us? >> a great question. there are many schools of thought about how to reach younger audiences. there are two general schools of thought. the one i am not in favor of is, you say here we are at npr, we want to reach younger audiences. we are born to get a grudge -- a bunch of grown-ups in the room and think about what show would appeal to youngsters. to pander ort catered to an audience, particularly as -- an audience that is as savvy as your generation coming up that can

smell a rat from 50 miles away. that is not the direction we are going. what we are doing is trusting you to be smart, curious, and engaged, and that the step that we do, which is report the news and tell stories about human beings that shed light on the events of this world is as much of an appeal to you as someone of mike generation, but you will consume it in a different way. maybe you are not listening to radio. maybe your listing on your ipod or your ipad or your android or your iphone, or what have you. that is why we have pushed very aggressively to be on all those platforms, and it is working. the median age for broadcast listing event is 50. as you move to different platforms, it drops.

if you live down to the ipad and iphone, the average age for the same content is 34. that may sound old you, but for news media, that is really young. it is the same content, it is out is delivered. that is our strategy for reaching the younger audience, and it seems to be working. we are moving more and more on facebook and twitter, and we will see those median age is dropping as well. >> i disagree a little bit. i do not think public service media is doing enough to reach younger demographics. that is probably more true on the television side. and i love public television, but public television, in my view, gets the audience from two

seven, and then from 47 to several years after death. you cannot satisfy everybody, but it seems to me that if public media is going to remain relevant, it has got to find ways to produce content that is especially relevant to your demographic. that is on the age side. it is also true in the political side, and for the state of california, for a city like los angeles, that has to be reflected more and more and more on public media, because everybody pays for that content.

the content that is produced is wonderful contents, but i think we have to do better. i will talk about the corporation for public broadcasting, which i am chairman of. we need to target, and we call it diversity, digital, and dialogue. but i propose to the young people in the room is to challenge us. challenge corporation for public broadcasting and pbs and get involved with local stations. i am sure there are ways to do that that is the way that younger voices will be incorporated into public service via, but that is just -- public-service media, but that is just one person's opinion. >> we have time for one more question.

>> you mentioned that social media's going to be a big part of journalism in the future, but you mentioned it mainly as a tool for reporters. the think it will gain the same legitimacy for use by non reporter's question marks the role that social meeting place for us at npr, it is used as a tool for reporters. our reporters bullfight individual sources, and i can tell you a million stories where we have found sources through twitter, and also in terms of -- in haiti when the infrastructure was largely down, mobile devices were still working. we were able to colonize efforts with all the other news organizations to use social media to be able to map of the

greatest destruction was and where aid was most needed. next, it is a distribution tool. i have not checked this in a mother too, but some months back we were the most retweeted source of news. that means that a story is tweeted, and did you send it to of your followers. you have an exponential effect, and we are reaching people we have never reached before based on twitter and facebook, and is driving traffic. the third is as participants in a dialogue of what we do. the public in public media is the audience. we are able to have dialogue. if you read any story posted on

facebook on npr, the comments that follow are absolutely delightful and intelligent and informed, most of the time. our reporters and editors are in the mix with them, talking to people. that is a very exciting element. i think we have just begun to scratch the surface of how powerful social media can be in journalism. >> ladies and gentlemen, please join me in thanking a bit in schiller for our wonderful remarks. -- banking committee in schiller -- thanking vivian schiller for rwanda for remarks. [applause] used early did not throw any softballs to vivian. i think we all leave today taking away some very good points. i think you presented your case very strongly and with

enthusiasm. i am sure in your will do well under your tutelage. thank you for coming. -- i am sure in pr will do well under tutelage. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> tonight, naturalist jane goodall's interview marking her fifth year association with national geographic. then, global food security and

party. later, another chance to see president and ceo of national public radio, vivian schiller. on "road to the white house," mike huckabee in iowa in an event sponsored by family leader. he discusses the ouster of three states supreme court justices who opposed banning gay marriage. here is a look. >> it was a historic election for all the country. i want to be candid. there was anxiety that many of us had as we watch the goings on. we knew one of two things would happen. if the pundits proved true and there was a push back against

the conservatives of the state of iowa, and the judges had been retained as a way of saying they can do anything they want and there will never be a penalty for their ignoring the will and the wishes of the people and their representatives, if that had happened, it would have been a devastating blow to conservatives and two christians and other people who value conscience in the public square. it would have had disastrous consequences far beyond the borders of iowa. that election went the other way. it was so significant and might have been singularly the most important election that happened in america because it set the stage in every other state that those who are governing will ultimately be accountable to the governmeed. that is a message that every

american needs to remember and be reminded of. i am here to say thank you on behalf of a grateful nation, to every pastor who had the guts to take a stand, to every layperson, to every mom, every bad, every person who walked neighborhoods and made phone calls and made it happen, you are to be commended. you did great work for america. thank you. god bless you. [applause] >> you can see the entire speech by former governor and 2008 presidential candidate mike huckabee sunday at 6:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. now we look at some of the newly elected governors. dan malloy is the longest- serving mayor of stamford, conn. he defeated tom foley,.

in florida's governor's race, rick scott won with 49% of the vote. he defeated alex sink. charlie crist ran for u.s. senate and lost. now, naturalist jane goodall. she was interviewed this month to mark her 50-year association with national geographic. she is best known for her study of chimpanzees in tanzania. she talks about her life and work. she presents awards to people whose work in conservation she admires. from george washington university in washington, d.c., this is about an hour-and-a- half.

>> please welcome the president of the george washington university, dr. steven knapp. it is a pleasure to welcome you to the auditorium for the jane goodall global leadership awards. it is a pleasure as well as an honor have dr. goodall on our campus as we celebrate her career. her ongoing work on primate beefcake -- behavior has captured the imagination of millions. she has expanded her efforts to improve conservation and power in used to strive for a better world. it is a pleasure to congratulate the recipients of the global leadership awards, individually and collectively, they embody

her values and advance her commitment to sustainability and flourishing of all life on the planet we share. here at george washington, we engage the world from this nation's capital. we do so by convening discussions of the most important issues of our time. our effort to enlighten and inform our strengthened by the partnerships we have throughout the region, the nation, and the world. we're delighted to co-host this program with the jane goodall institute. i am pleased to the institute established a chapter of jane goodall's roots & shoots here at george washington. that will provide our suits with -- students with another opportunity to act on their passion for changing the world. please join me in welcoming the president and chief executive officer of the jane goodall institute, maureen smith. [applause]

>> thank you very much, everyone. i welcome -- want to welcome all of the students who snapped up tickets for this event in record time. thank you. we want this to be very informal. i'm dressed in a suit, and i feel like a member of the partridge family. i would like you to feel relaxed. i have no spirit we have not rehearsed any of this so it is as natural as possible, to give you an insight into dr. goodall, work, and something that is unique in a university setting. i want to welcome our board of directors and the staff that are here. we would like them to please stand and the knowledge. any staff for board members who are here, please --

[applause] we had a long board meeting today, but it was a lot of fun. this is a great way to cap off an eventful day. i wanted to tell you about my history with dr. goodall. i have only been at the helm for seven months with jgi. i feel like i have known jane for longer than six months. i can clearly remember sitting with my father in his ugly blue leather chair he had, watching jane goodall specials on national geographic specials. it changed my life. i said, i want to work with her some day. i envisioned it would be working with her out in the jungles of africa. that didn't quite happen. my life took me to the entertainment industry. i wound up meeting her six years ago. we were making documentaries

like "when animals talk." when i worked alongside her, it changed my life. when the opportunity came up to be a part of her organization, i decided to make a dramatic shift in my career and joined the organization. i could not be more thrilled. the people at jgi dedicate themselves to making the planet a better place and trying to do what we can to fulfill the vision of this incredible woman. enough about me. i know the reason we're here tonight is because of that one woman who shows us we can change the world. ladies and gentlemen, the one and only dr. jane goodall. [applause] hello.

please be seated. hello, there. >> hello. >> i agree to them in a certain way. perhaps there is a better greeting you would like to introduce to the group. >> the kind of greeting you would hear if you came to the most wonderful place in the world, a national park, and you climb up in the mountains in the mornings, and hope to hear the chimpanzees greeting the day -- [chimpanzee noises] hello. [applause] may be at the end, i will make the good night call, when the chimpanzees are in their nests

and they are calling back and forth. if you remind me -- >> a little while ago when i was introducing myself, i talked about watching national geographic specials and being so inspired by your work. national geographic is represented tonight. we will talk about them shortly. they have produced a video for tonight that encapsulates your journey with them. we are celebrating 50 years of dr. goodall's pioneering research and vision for our planet. now, if we could please roll the video? we will talk about it afterward. >> july 14, 1960. 26-year-old jane goodall arrives on the shos of a reserve o the coast of what is now tanzania. >> when i looked athe wild and rugged mountai, i knew my task would not be easy. >> she had been sent by a

renowned anthropologist, who approached the nional geographic society about supporting her work. she has no field experience or college degree. what she has is a determination to observe chimpanzees with a mind uncluttered by a traditional scientific methods. >> when i first came to study chimpanzees, i knew nothing about them. no one knew very much aut them. >> she has the courage to spend mont in a remote, even ngerous place, gets closer to wild cmps than anyone before r. within weeks, she is making astonishing discoveries. chimps will hunt down large mammals and eat them.

morehocking, they t only use tools, they make them. >> the chimpanzee is modifying a natural object. when thecientist heard about this, he go extremely excited. he saide must now include chimpanzees with humans. >> these discoveries, caught on film, sentational geographic into alurry of coverage. in the next five years, national geographic presents a jane's first film and many articles in the magazine. jane becomes a star. imps nd her beloved cha

become known worldwide. jane redefines a science, adding an emotional component. >> it is perfectly possible to be incredibly involved, feeling great empathy for your subjects. >> it is what would drive her to learn as much aut chimps anne in the world to find out how ke we really are. >> during t very early years, i thought how like people they work. ey seemed to be much more gentle, much nicer. then it became more and more apparent that chimpanzees, like humans, have a dark side to their natu. >> she witnees a war between chimpanzees that lasts fou years.

decades-deep in her study, jane discovers that the populations are under threat from the outside. by the980's, they are an endangered species. jane realizes she can best save these creatures by leaving to speak to the world face to face about the importance of protecting these chimps. >> if we just sit back and allow the chimpanzees here and everywhere else to become extent, it will be an enormous black mark on the other species. if we destroy the natural world, we end up with a situation. there has to be a way of creating a balance between humans and the natural world.

>> the area has since become a natural reserve. her sights are set on the future. she has launched conservation projects, humanitarian work, the jane goodall institute. the institute is promoting a new generation of conservationists and helping a new generation of researchers. >> i will do everything i can to cheer them on. >> 15 years later, jan has witnessed three generations of chimpanzees. the dream that jane goodall set in motion lives on, and her partnership with national geographic continues. the october issue of "national geographic magazine" features a celebration of the young english

girl who was a pioneer in so ny ways, who patiently reached across every boundary to draw us closer to our closest relative. >> thank you to national geographic. thank you. [applause] take us back 50 years and tell us about how national geographic came into the picture, and the impact that it had on your car repaired >> the national geographic really came into the picture because of louis. he had to tackle a whole lot of people who were horrified. here is this young girl, she came from england, she does not have a degree, potentially dangerous, and you're asking us

to fund such a ridiculous, crazy expedition. in the end, he was so persuasive. they agreed. the impact of my life in more ways than just providing the funding to carry on the research. they provided me with a husband. after i had begun to really get the chimpanzees used to me and know many of them by name, they wanted to make a film. louis recommended this young dutch photographer. i was very reluctant. i thought it would disturb the chimpanzees. he saved -- he shared my passion. he came and he was patient. it was his film through the national geographic that really are aroundimps

the world. the number of times that i go -- i can go anywhere and somebody will say, i read about you in "national geographic" when i was growing up. because of the exposure to the magazines and the films, the documentary's, i mean, i cannot walk through an airport in the u.s. without at least six people coming up and wanting autographs and photographs. they read the "national geographic" when they were young. it is had an incredible impact on my life. my son is wonderful. maybe he would not exist but for national geographic. the editor back then, he was the head of the science research. i cannot remember his exact title. whatever it was, louis said, you

cannot expect jane goodall to be out there on her own in the bush and have this young dutch photographer, out and have the two of them on their own. this is a different era. we go back 48 years or something. he said that i must have a chaperone. it was always a big joke that the geographic. this is the most expensive chaperon in our history. >> that is great. we have the october issue here that features the 50 years, some amazing photograph, and the great interview with you. do you want to talk about this article and what it means to you? >> it was actually going to be on the cover, but the oil spill bump it off the cover.

"national geographic" is no longer published only in the u.s. i have already seen five different editions where the chimps did make the cover. that is kind of nice. this is an article with david. he interviewed me. i knew him before from another article. going through the 50 years and looking at the family trees, you know, it was a lot of nostalgia that went into this article. it is really nice to see an article after 10 years, something like that. very special. >> it is very special to all of us, too. we are here tonight because some many people consider dr. goodall to be one of their personal heroes. it is interesting for us to hear who your heroes are. several years ago, she started

handing out the jane goodall global leadership awards. it gave her a chance to recognize people who are making a difference. oftentimes, they are not people that the masses have heard about. sometimes they are. we would like to start out with giving out the first award. it is to the national geographic society. it is the jane goodall global leadership award for excellence in social responsibility. i would like to invite terry garcia to, on the stage and get the award from dr. goodall. [applause] >> it is a mark of enormous gratitude for what geographic has done, not for me, but the chimpanzees.

national geographic has played a leading role. it is all of the world. my uncle collected "national geographic" from way back. people say, we cannot throw them away. we do not know what to do with them. >> you can get them on dvd's now, folks. it has been an honor. thank you so much. [applause] i have just a few remarks. first of all, thank you, jane and maureen. it is an honor for national geographic to receive this award and to be here tonight for this celebration. how fortunate we are that louis was so persistent, and told us so many years ago that we needed to meet and then support an amazing young woman who wanted

to study chimpanzees in africa. it was quite a leap of faith, but 26 grants, 25 "national geographic" articles, four books later, i think that you would agree with me that it was well worth taking. i want to say a few words about national geographic. people often are surprised when i tell them that national geographic is not a media company. our mission is not to publish magazines. our mission is not to produce television programs, even though i see some of our television producers out there. sorry. when we were founded in 1888, our mission was to increase geographic knowledge. that meant we were going to explore. over a century now, we have been sending adventuress men and women to every point on the planet exploring. that original endeavor was to fill in the blank spaces on the

maps. they did that. we have now made almost 10,000 grants for field research, conservation, and exports of around the world. we are actually stepping up the pace now. when these people returned from the field, then we tell their stories. that has been our practice, explore to increase knowledge, communicate to disseminate that knowledge, or diffuse that knowledge. lately, an interesting thing has happened. we're asking ourselves, is that enough? sometimes the lines between reporting, educating, and advocating are less well defined than they might seem. sometimes, dispassionate objectivity comes at a cost. sometimes, as jane said, we should not be objected that the expense of being human. sometimes, the very act of telling a story changes the

storyteller. that is what has happened to us, in a way. over the last decade, we have sent photographers, explorers, scientists, hundreds of them out into the field in search of various truths. almost without exception, they have come back as committed conservationists. that is because the truth they have found is in so many cases, things are slipping away. climates are changing. habits are shrinking. species are teetering on the edge of extinction. languages are being lost. traditions are being forsaken and forgotten. we felt we needed to make a change in our orientation. we were going to no longer use that quaint 19th century formulation of our mission, and our mission is to inspire people to care about the planet. even more, we were going to use our resources, scientific and

educational, to begin to focus the public's attention on some of the key problems that are confronting the planet, as well as focus on the solutions to those problems. in spite of these problems, there is reason for optimism. one of them, from my perch, is the emergence that i see of a new generation of scientists and explorers. they take their inspiration from jane goodall and all that she hasccomplished. as we speak tonight, there are men and women all over the world who are in remote places, in some cases enduring unimaginable hardships, to pursue what they think is important. most encouraging, the many more that want to go, if only they have the means. some are out there, there is a young visionary much like the young woman that we support it 50 years ago who has the will to

make her vision become a reality. now, this person would be someone who would be more than someone who would just bear witness to events, but would help to write a new story for the planet. it has been a wonderful journey withou, jane. we look forward to the future journey that we are going to take together. thank you very much. [applause] >> the next award is for overall global leadership. the awardee is dr. mark plotkin. i thought maybe you could tell the people a little bit about how you first m him a perhaps what they are doing.

>> i cannot remember exactly when i met mark. i feel i have known him forever. i simply don't remember when first i met him. i was immediately attracted because of his passion, because of his commitment not just to gog into wild places, but to the people, and working with the people, of course, we realize very clearly that if we want to conserve any wildlife in a developing country where people are living very often in poverty, there is no way that nservation is gog to work if you don't work with the people, and help the people to lead better lives, and therefore live in a way that will be less damaging to the environment. mark plotkin had this vision,

and he also realized that there was a tremendous knowledge, an ancient knowledge and wisdom about the planet in the indigenous people, particularly the shannon's -- shamans. he set up some of the old shamans. he found the money so they could actually have a school. the young men were coming to learn the ancient art that otherwise would have disappeared. he also -- i love that he was so passionate about the fact that the local people, the indigenous people, pharmaceutical companies were coming in and taking these medicinal plants. the local people got nothing. this is still happening in many places. he fought tirelessly so that the people would get some money back, and not have this continuing stealing and stealing of their treasure, their future.

that is what really appealed with an -- appeal to me with mark. he is still involved in the same kind of projects and mission. >> great. my notes show that he and his team work with more than 32 amazonian tribes to map, manage, and improve the protection of more than 7 million acres of ancestral reinforced. mark could not be with us tonight. i know his wife is in the audience. we would like for her to stand and be acknowledged. there she is. thank you very much. [applause] through the wonders of technology, we do have him in a video where he gave a little thank you. let's roll tape. ♪

>> hi. i would like to begin by thanking everybody at the jane goodall institute, starting with jane goodall, for the recognition of our work. our work in south america is in some ways inspired by the work of jane herself, and by the work of jgi, particularly in africa. we are all involved in the same quest and challenge. getting this recognition means a lot to each and everyone of us. thank you once again. [applause]

>> we talked a little bit about the work in africa. that was the big focus of the national geographic attention. we know there is something that is essential to what we do at jgi. i hope you can talk about how roots & shoots began and what inspired you. >> it doesn't get me much -- it does not take much to get me to talk. it began in tanzania. as i was traveling around, talking about the problems we face today, i met so many young people who seemed to have lost hope. there were either depressed or they were angry. when i talked to them, they said the same. there is nothing we can do about this. we have compromised the future of our youth. there's no question. i have got grandchildren.

everywhere i go, i meet young children. i think how we have harmed the this planet since we were their age. i feel a kind of desperation. it is not true that nothing can be done about it. roots & shoots is about him powering on people to take action to make this world a better place, not just to sit back and say, it is very sad, but there's nothing i can do, but to get together and realize the power of youth is huge. once the young people know the problems, they are empowered to take action. there are three kinds of projects to make the world better, to make it better for people, in their own community, may be raising money for tsunami victims, or travelling out, may be seeing the problems -- maybe seeing the problems, a project improving the lives of animals,

and a project that is going to improve their environment. of course, the imagination of the young people who sit down and talk about the problems, there is always one young person who wants to help animals, always come in every group. there is somebody who wants to do community service and help people. there are always several who want to go and improve clean streams and clear litter. every group of roots & shoots, there are young people who can fling themselves into whatever action has been decided because it is their passion. it started with high school students, 12 of them. it is now in 121 countries. we have summer between 16,000 and 18,000 active groups. they are all ages, from preschool right through university. a brand new group is starting in george washington university.

we have roots & shoots groups in old people's homes. we have this wonderful group in prisons. it has gone beyond use. it is basically youth-driven. there are roots & shoots members, students, and mentors here tonight. could you will stand up? this is the future of the planet. where are you? [applause] i have to finally say that we have 27 jim quello institutes in different parts of the world, and -- jane goodall institute in different parts of the world, and everyone of them has roots & shoots as part of their programs. there are roots & shoots groups beyond the jane goodall

institute. 121 -- i think it is more. i think it is more developing. we are developing in latin america. it is very exciting. it really is. for me, one of my greatest hopes for the future, and it is still growing. anyone here who is not involved, just check out roots &shoots.org. >> tomorrow, we are going to have a workshop here on campus at the amsterdam house at 11:30. you can learn about roots & shoots. we will have several hundred participants coming year. it is a great way to see it in action and get inspired. tonight, we are recognizing three particular youth from the

roots & shoots program. i would like to run the video, and then we will talk about each one briefly. let's roll tape, please. ♪ ♪ >> hello. thank you very much, dr. jane and jgi, for giving me the opportunity to be here tonight. i am so honored to be this -- to be receiving this award.

i believe i represent all of the use the roots & shoots network, working in their communities to make the places they live than the planet as a whole a better place. i have seen in groups in my community and around the planet that, when anybody, no matter their situation, puts their mind to it, they can change this planet. they can change this world. i am proud to represent them all here tonight. thank you very much. >> hello. it is an honor to of been chosen to receive this award. thank you. people have devoted their time and energy to show that changing the future is possible. thank you for helping me.

bye! >> how low. i am very happy to receive this award this fine evening. i am very grateful to jane goodall, the jane goodall institute, and those with chosen me for this award. dr. jane has been-seoul inspiration. -- been my soul inspiration. the jane goodall institute in india is going to take final shape very soon. i accepted this award as an encouragement. i am very happy i could meet all of you through this wonderful video. i hope to see you in india.

dr. jane goodall, thank you for everything. hope to see you here very soon. thank you. [applause] >> let's start with arun. >> the important thing to say about these young people is that they represent other young people. what is so special about all of them is that they are not only being inspired to make a difference, but each one of them is able to inspire others. this is how roots & shoots is going. we realized several years ago that there is no better way of

growing ots & shoots than to have these people as a our ambassadors. -- as our ambassadors. jason went out into schools and talk about the mission. by selecting three out of many -- it was very hard. choosing the older ones -- we don't give this award to people who are over 24. it is important for people to find some hope. you know, rather than what they

have actually done, the really important thing is that they are making a very major difference in their own ways come in their own communities. they are inspiring others. they are spreading the message. i say it is my greatest hope for the future. >> we have a surprise for you today. one of the young people in the video is here tonight. would you please come on stage and personally get your word? -- get your award? [applause] >> thank you. >> you don't have to leave yet. you can say a few words. we could not get enough of you

on that video. please. nothing like putting you on the spot. >> thank you. as i said in the video, i am not sure why i won this award. i am is simply a representation of the youth around the globe in the roots and shoots network. we are working on simple projects. we werdoing actions together changing our communities and changing our world. it is altering our individual futures and our future as a generation. it is an inspiring to me to travel around the country and see everywhere i go that people are working in their communities.

that is what keeps me going everyday. it is an honor to win this award. thank you. [applause] >> i would just like to say one more thing. i wish we could have had him appear giving a talk. -- up here giving a talk. you would understand how major it is. one thing that really struck me, he was one of the first members in 1991. when we asked what roots and shoots meant to him in his life, he said all of the usual things. he said it was important for him to try to be an inspiration for people. he had had a lot of fun. he was using his life to try to make things better.

then he said, what i really love about the organization is that i have found my family. that is what it is all about. >> part of the successes not just the young people. it is the dedicated adults and educators who lead to these groups. tonight, we will acknowledge one of those in particular. you mentioned rick. would you like to speak about him a little bit? >> rick is a very special man. a lot of my heroes are teachers. this teacher is a very special hero. when roots & shoots was introduced in the u.s., it was 1993. he was teaching in an

alternative high school in connecticut. it was a school where many of the kids had dropped out. they were coming from dysfunctional families, a lot of violence, drugs, and gangs. he told me that every night, he was waiting to be ready to be woken up. it was bad. when i first met him, he was just beginning to recover from cancer. he had been given a 20% chance of living. he had been through tremendous pain. i will always remember him saying that he got through because of the love of his family. the students, whom he never thought cared, would bring him food to eat. he was so touched by how much they cared.

he moved on and help us in tanzania. he has mentored hundreds and hundreds of roots & shoots students. he is just an incredibly special, amazing person. >> so, we have video of rep. we also have him here in person. you can never get too much rick asselta. he is the winner of the award for excellence in education. let's roll the video. then we will meet rick asselta. ♪

>> the person whose gratitude means the most to me is jane goodall. [inaudible] it is an honor. they're young people all over the world. this award means we have made things better. this award means we have reason for hope. we are all partners in this journey called roots & shoots. jane has always been there for my efforts. i have always tried to be there for her and the program, even when that means 007 assignments.

for the people of roots & shoots "walk hand in hand, we are a circle, holding hands with people we have met. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome rick asselta. [applause] >> he has already got his award. you sought in the film. -- saw it in the film. >> i did suggested had a cup so we could put some beer in it.

jane talked about the alternatives stool -- school. she saved several lives of children in the alternative school because of the sadness in their lives. she said, i am going to be here for you, not once, but over and over. she wrote letters to them to encourage them. there is no better role model on this planet than jane. yeah. [applause] from my teacher's perspective, roots & shoots has an incredible model, which is "compassion, knowledge, action." that has been the motto we have followed. you can have all the compassion in the world, but if you don't know what you're doing, you can really mess things up. not only has she met emotional

needs, she has met educational needs, encouraging people to be the best they can be academically, personally, every way you can think of. jane, thank you so much. [applause] >> if some of you were not watching college football this past saturday, you might have been watching the sundance channel and the season premiere of the iconoclast series. it was a great event for us that the jane goodall institute. it was an episode film over the summer with jane and charlize theron. it was the first time they had met. jane had always been a hero of charlize's. we thought it would be a tremendous opportunity to show the world a facility we operate in the condgo.

perhaps you can tell people more about the facility. >> it is the largest in africa. we are not proud of that, because all of the chimpanzees are there because their mothers were shot. some of the older chimpanzees, their mothers were shot for the live animal trade. these animals were rescued for pets and so forth. most of them come in as victims of the bush meat trade. the bush meat trade is the commercial hunting of wild animals for food, made possible by the big logging companies going into remote places and making roads. if they practice sustainable logging, they make these roads. now they can go to previously inaccessible spots. they shoot everything,

elephants, barlow's, chimpanzees, antelopes, birds, anything that they can smoke. they trucked them into the towns where the urban elite will pay more for it. it is their culture. they often shoot the mother. no self respecting hunter in the old days would shoot a mother with a baby. now it is for money. you shoot the mother chimpanzee. what do you do with the baby? i can still remember the first time that i saw an infant chimpanzee for sale in a marketplace. it was one of the saddest things i have ever seen. he was curled up in a tiny little heap. he was sweating. he was probably a year old. i thought he was very close to death. i made the very soft sound that

you make close-up, and to my amazement, he reached out and touched my face. i could not leave him there. fortunately, an american ambassador allowed us to confiscate that baby. it was against the law. that little chimp is now one of those in the facility. he started off in is i air -- zaire. there are over 140 chimpanzee's there. we are seeking funding to get them into better conditions. we have had the use of these three islands. we pay the fishermen who were camping there so that the islands would be freed up for chimpanzees. now we have to raise the money for the infrastructure so it is safe to put them on these big islands.

it is desperately important that we do this because the adult chimpanzees are able to escape easily from these electric fences. they are so clever. they can short it. they will put branches up. they are very clever at getting out. it is unsafe to let one chimpanzee up. we did not let the film team go near this particular part of the sanctuary. we thought it would be really nice. that is what they wanted, to meet some of the babies who go out in the forest every day and learn to climb and play. charlize melted. >> the equipment that they have is basically human playground equipment to climb on. with the acquisition of these

three islands, we are able to give them a setting to let them play and thrive as chimpanzees should. we can put specific groups on the different island so they get along well. we can know who is there. chimps don't swim. we don't need a fence around the area. we can have the veterinarians that we have and other staff go there by boats and provide them with the food and services they need. at some point, we hope it will give people a chance to see chimps in their natural habitat. it is something we are very excited about. let's get back to charlize. although she and the crew were going to go back to a hotel, she and you hit it off so well, she asked if she could camp with you in the same area over night, and get the camera crews away, and just sit and tell stories by the

fire and get to know each other. i am sure people are curious as to what those conversations were when the cameras were turned off. >> we talked about her childhood a lot. she grew up in south africa. she grew up in a poor family. we exchange stories. i grew up in a family where everything you had other than what you needed was a treat. for me, it was apartheid. although i was in england and she was in south africa, we were a very different age, but we have a lot in common. she is very passionate about wildlife and animals. it was a very lovely evening. she actually cooked the food. i will tell you a secret. it wasn't that wonderful. >> what was it? >> it was some kind of pasta.

it wasn't properly boiling. we tease her lot. everybody was hungry. i have to say, she had a fantastic film crew with her. they were absolutely wonderful. everybody worked as a team. i hope that this series will get the message out there that this is a place that really needs help. it is also -- i think we should make clear that it is not just looking after the orphaned chimpanzees. it is also involving many of the local people. we are definitely improving th eir economy. we pile of the food from nearby villages. we started a program to improve their lives in different kinds of waves -- ways. we helped to build some schools.

we encourage the government to build roads. they are all excited. there is no question. jgi has made a difference in the whole area. we're not there just for the chimpanzees. if we don't bother about the people, the chimpanzees will continue to be killed. everything is interconnected. >> some people might be under the impression that we can take the chimpanzees in and we habituate them, and then let them out in the wild. that is not the case. >> first of all, the chimpanzee infant is taken from its mother. you have to make sure they learn how to behave like chimpanzees. they have to learn. like our children, they are not born with a set of the institutes that tell them, you climb a tree like this, you fish for insects like that, and you interact with others in this particular way, and this gesture

means that. they have to learn. they learn by watching and imitating, as well as trial and error. the other big problem is that the habitat is disappearing fast. in many places, there is a have a ticket with wild chimps -- a habitat with wild chimps. they have a dark side. if you release other chimpanzees into the territory of an existing community, they are going to attack them. .

you are giving her an award tonight because she is the real deal. she really backs wlaup she says and very passionate about this and also agreeing to help us get the islands funded and do other things and use her celebrity as much as we can through all our needs and she's really turned out to be a great friend to all of us at the institute. the actual award that she's getting is the award for responsible activism in media and entertainment. and she could not be with us

tonight. i know my husband is very disappointed about that. [laughter] she could not be here tonight and is filming on location but did take a hand-held camera and wanted to send in you particular a special message and you have not heard this. so take a look. ♪ >> thank you, so much, jane. i'm sorry i can't be with you today but i want to say thank you so much for this award.

and everybody at the jane goodall institute. i don't know if i'm quite worthy. i just want to say that being able to spend a couple of days with jane changed my life and has inspired me and want to continue to do so much more with my africa outreach program. i think we both have a great relief. and this idea and i think truth that this world really belongs to the generation of the youth. and that they have to start acting like it's theirs and take responsibility and ownership for it. and i can't tell you how much i value the work i do in trying to bring that across to not only the children in south africa but all of africa. jane, you're incredible. i love you so much. you are so much more than words can ever articulate. i accept this award and thank you very, very much. [applause]

>> so i've been noticing we've had our little friend on the table here. and i think people might not know the story of our friend. so would you please talk to people. >> some people may not. i see he was in the film. i don't know if anybody noticed him. but he appeared about two or three times this evening. this is mr. h. he's 15 years old. he's not jubilee. everybody says is that the original chimpanzee you had when you were a small child, 18 months i was, that jubilee still exists. for your information. he's almost bald because he was loved so much and probably -- he's at home in england in my bedroom sitting there. this is mr. h that was given to me by an extraordinary man called gary horn. one of my heroes, one of my many here oles. gary horn went blind when he

was 21. he was in the u.s. marines. when he was rehabilitating, he decided that he would like to be a magician. i guess he met a magician or something. and everybody said, but gary, you can't be a good magician if you can't see. and he said well, i can try. and he is so good that the children don't know he's blind. maybe one or two will guess. but basically no. and i've watched him. i've watched him four times. he's ut early amazing -- utterly amazing. and when he fence his act he will turn to the -- when he finishes his act he will turn to the children and say he's bleend and say things may go wrong in your life because we never know but you must never give up. there's always a way forward. and he does scuba diving, cross country skiing, skydiving. he climbed mount kilimanjaro. he gave me mr. h for my birthday, 15 years ago. he thought he was giving me a stuffed chimpanzee.

this guy has helped me teach more people than i could count that chimpanzees don't have tails. i made gary hold the tail. and he said oh, well, never mind. take him where you go and you know my spirit is with you. he was advertised in the catalogue as a chimpanzee. that's the story anyway. >> i see. >> he's been to 59 countries in these 15 years. he's been touched by more than three million people. i don't know how he survived. quite onestly. most people are gentle. but not always. a puppy got his nose. a rather boist russ child tried to pull his head off the -- he saw a mark here. mr. h, if you touch him, the inspiration of gary horn rubs off. so he is very special. and very important. he's my mascot. >> and id the pleasure of

meeting -- i had the pleasure of meeting gary a few days ago. we were in the hamptons for the hampton film festival, the u.s. premiere of jane's journey which is a brand new documentary film. unlike any other film you've seen about jane before. really documenting her history but also her present day where she's touring 300 days a year. and it shows her going from one location to the next and discussing her mission with people of all kinds and spreading the word. we're not filming for it tonight. so it's not a part two. you aren't going to be movie stars but we do have g.w. tv and c-span here tonight and i wanted to thank them r coming out as well. there's no official theatrical distribution date for jane's journey. but coop coming to our web site and you'll be the first to know when we got distribution locked up for it. but we're very excited because this woman can only be in so many places in the course of a year to get that message out. and this movie will really help serve that purpose. so we're very excited about that.

anything else about mr. h that you would like people to know? >> no. i think that's his story, really. fortunately, h also stands for "hope." and i think if i have a mission in life, it's giving people hope. because the only one thing for sure, if people lose hope, if our children lose hope, there is no hope. because without hope, why would you bother? what's the point? you may as well just eat, drink and be ministery for tomorrow we die. so hope is really, really important. >> very good. >> there's a thing now that, you know, you could pretend to have hope, couldn't you? but if you pretend to have hope, that nobody would believe you? i think so. i do have hope. because of the youth. >> wonderful. >> we have hope because of you. so thank you. now this is something i'm really excited about. in particular, quite often, when jane does interviews, she

gets the standard questions. but every once in a while people will throw in a zinger that we didn't see coming. and it's just -- questions to try to get to know her a little bit more on a different level outside of the world we all know her for. so we've gathered together some of those questions and some she's never been asked before probably. but it also is going to give us a chance to see more of -- hopefully jane's side of humor which you've seen touches of tonight. but i can tell you honestly that she is a riot. and she's got a very devilish sense of humor. and told me i needed to learn to be teased a little bit more than i could take. but let's get started. ok. now, i'm in contr here. [laughter] jane, who is your dream date? >> well, my dream date, it's a bit like who you would have dinner with, isn't it?

>> itepends. [laughter] >> ok. my dream date. i can dream. tarzan of course. >> tarzan. [applause] >> you slip in the other jane, that wimpy jane? >> that wimpy jane. when i was 10, i was so jealous of that jane. i mean, it was terrible. but that was tarzan who took me to africa. not the real tarzan. i knew there wasn't one. but it was reading the tarzan books. not johnny wise muller. -- weissmuller. my mother saved up. she saved up to take me to one. first johnny weissmullers that came after the war and she -- i burst into crying and she said what on the earth is the matter? that wasn't tarzan.

i read the books. that's something we deprive our children of today because every single hero is out there on tv. and that's why it is always turned on hollywood movies. and being approached about four hollywood people wanting to do -- have some -- like -- i'm me. [laughter] >> what if we could do you and tarzan in c.g.i.? together? what does jane goodall like to do for fun other than tease me? >> well, jane goodall is fun. i think fun is when you are with really good friends and you really relax and you can just be silly and tell stories. and to me, that's really fun. and being back with my family. my sister. and her family. and my son when i'm out in tanzania, and you have fun when

you're with family. and good friends. >> what is your drink of choice? >> whiskey. [laughter] [applause] sorry. you call it scotch. scotch whiskey. >> ok. >> without ice. but a little bit of water. >> send the bottles to my address and she might get them. >> and the other is coffee. >> and you have an interesting way of making coffee when you're traveling. >> yeah, i do. because i like to be self-contained. when you travel 300 days a year, i have to say that a lot of american coffee is not very nice. it's weak and wishy. wish yes washy. -- wishy-washy so we call it -- i like to take my coffee with

me and we have the green mountain coffee who came out and we should say this coffee, but that it was really -- finding really good coffee growing high up botch the hills in ganbi and green mountain came out and tested it and said this really is good and bought some and made this specialty brand. and that's enabled us to give the farmers more money, not us giving it to them, green mountain, so other coffee roasters, more money than they ever dreamed of. a fair price. way above fair trade. and that's why the farmers have now agreed in different villages to put that conservation land aside in such a way that it's forming a buffer around ganbi and corridors moving around will link the ganbi chimps that are trapped and link them to other remnant groups. so coffee's done that. and that's why coffee, it's really important. but ok.

so i've got my green mountain ground coffee. and then i have one of those immersion coils. you plug it in. and you put it in the cup of water. and it boils the water. >> right. >> then you put the coffee into the boiled -- with boiling water. and the coffee machines in hotel rooms, they're afraid of being sued if they boil the water. because it might burn you and it would be their fault, not your stupid fault. so the water is never hot. i don't know if you've tried. i put my coil in and it takes five minutes to come to the boil from their boiled water. and so then you get -- pantyhose and you put that over another cup. and you put it over like that. and then the coffee after stirring it is perfect. and it's light. and you can actually wash it and put it on again. >> always thinking recycling.

always thinking. but you did mention something, too, that the green mountain coffee is one of the select products that we have deemed worthy of our version of a good housekeeping seal of approval which is that jane goodall, good for all brand. and you'll see that on some select products. and it's only done when the local communities are really benefiting from our partners being there. and i hop you see more and more , whole food markets has been a big supporter and carries quite a bit of our products there with the good for all brand. and it's really nice to know that when you go in to buy something with the good for all brand it's supporting us to some degree. we do get a portion of the proceeds. but really the people on the ground. so i'm not going to ask you about cooking because i just heard about coffee. what movie do you watch when you want to laugh? >> well, one, i don't often watch movies let me say that. the only time is really when i'm in england on a d.v.d. with

my sister. we watch movies. and one that always makes me laugh is eddie murphy "trading places." it's very, very funny. and happens to have this gorilla in it at the end which is quite fun. >> all right. what was your most embarrassing moment while on a lecture tour? >> the most embarrassing moment was probably when we had one of the very first gala events for gambi 30. and my mother who is of course no longer with us now, but she was there for gambi 30 and came over and had this very nice sort of skirt. and my mom had never really had a waist. she was always very jealous of people with wastes. she also hated anything tight around her waist. so here we are. we had been through the gala. and without any problems. but-than-we were gathering

around having -- but then we were gathering around having of course scotch together with all of our little group, maybe 10 of us. and we changed all the hotels sitting room chairs around so that we could sit in a nice group and tell stories. and then she got up in a grand sort of way as she could and well, i'll leave you children. i'm going to bed. and she walked away from us, her skirt fell down. [laughter] she had a nice petticoat underneath. >> good for that. you're in great shape. what is your exercise routine? >> no time. >> you have no time for exercise? so how do you stay in such great shape? >> because actually seriously, giving a lecture uses just about every muscle in your body. i give lectures so many times. it really -- you may not move. but actually you're using all your whole body to give a

lecture. but walking through airports, lugging cases. i try and go up the stairs in hotels. these days because of security you get all the way puffing up to 10 floors and you can't get -- all the way down. and then you have to go down into the basement and they think you're a terrorist spy. [laughter] i kind of walk when i can if i'm at home, i walk along the beach and up the cliffs wute knowing it, i train for -- without knowing it, train for gambi as a child. we have the sam house, you see. >> the sam house? >> yeah. >> tell us about the house a little bit. >> the house belonged to my grandmother and her son became a very successful surgeon. he was amazing so he mortgaged the house and eventually we got the house. because of him. and so we -- you know, it has a lovely garden. it's in england. it's big. but it's always had so many of the family in it. and sometimes it seems too

small. and has a nice garden. that's the best thing about it. and it's those trees i used to climb. and dream about africa. and they're still there. so i can look out of my win do and see the beach tree i spent so much time in and did my homework and i can see the very tall fur tree. and so much taller now. i was told i had to have my tonsils out and i really didn't like the thought of going to hospital. so i climbed up to the top of that tree. and i wouldn't come down. but i did in the end. and finally i never got my tonsils taken out. because there was a polio he depic and it was my uncle who -- epidemic and it was my unk who will said she's got to wait . a sore throat is very easy way for a polio virus to infect you. so then at the end of the summer, it seemed i didn't have these terrible throats anymore. and i forgot all about my

tonsils. and i was inspected when i lost my voice once from talking too much. and lectures. by a nose and throat specialist. and he said oh, i see you've had your tonsils out. i said no, i never did. it's gone. >> it's the coffee. it's the way you make your coffee. >> the whiskey. [laughter] >> very good. ok. now, if you were stuck on a deserted island, who would you rar be there with? tarzan or dr. doolittle? >> we already said tarzan. he's my daut. actually, i wouldn't be very keen on either of them if i couldn't have a dog. that comes first. on my desert island i want a dog. and dr. doolittle, he really didn't like people anymore. so he probably wouldn't have been a good companion on the desert island. except for the dog.

>> a dog played a very important role in your research and sort of the perspective you took on research. can we talk about that at the moment? >> yes. when i first got to cambridge university, because lewis said i had to get a degree. and he told me there was no time to mess with a b.a. and i didn't have any degree. never been to college. he said i had to do a ph.d. at cambridge university in england. so it was very scary. and i arrived. but i was also excited because i had all this information i collected. and i didn't know how to use it and i really wanted to mack lewis leaky proud of me. and the geographic because they had all sort of really helped me so much. and so it was a pretty good shock to be told that i had done everything wrong and the chimps shouldn't have had names. they should have had numbers. and i couldn't talk about mind or personality. or emotion because those are unique to us. there i am very naive but i stuck my neck out because i

remembered my dog, rusty, taught me as a child. that animals do have personalities, minds and feelings. and certainly deserve names. and so cambridge taught me how to talk about these things in a way that didn't leave me wide open to be torn apart by all my very arrogant scientific advisors. >> i had the college students laughing at that one. >> actually college students here. let me tell you the most amazing bit of advice. i had a wonderful supervisor, professor robert hine. one of my toughest critics at the start until he game to gambi and said two weeks at gambi taught him more about animal behavior than the rest of his life put together. in my naive way, and this paper, and i talked about fifi and her little baby brother was

born. she was about 5 years old. and she absolutely loved this baby. and she was always wanting to touch him and having to keep her away. and every time another youngster would approach, fifi would bristle up and start yelling and shaking her hands and chasing them away. so i said that fitchi was jealous. -- fifi was jealous. robert hine said you can't say she was jealous because you can't prove it. so -- well, i couldn't possibly prove it. so i said but i'm sure she was. so what should i say? so listen, students, because this is very clever. he said i suggest you write fifi behaved in such a way that had she been a human child, we would say she was jealous. it's really -- and i've used that all the way through, even in the geographic in the early days when they were a bit stickly. i used that same way of writing. so that you can't be pulled

apart because there's nothing anybody can criticize in that sentence. >> we're going to switch gears a little bit and get a little more serious. what was your scariest moment out in the wild? >> probably in the very early days, i was walking past some -- the lake, about this deep, to get around some rocks and walking along the beach. of lake tanganika. and a wave. it wasn't rough but this gentle wave came toward me. and it was carrying with it a stormwater cobra. no anti-venom for that. being a sea snake it has a very vicious venom that kills quite quickly. and the wave deposited it on my foot. the wave went away. and there was my -- the snake, my foot, on the sand. and i looked at that snake and it looked back at me because

they do. eye to eye. a snake. and i plooked at it and i kept completely still and thought, well, i haven't hurt it. and another wave came. and gently took it away. i jumped out of the water. >> oh, good. jane, what keeps you up at night? >> lots of things. cruelty to animals. the suffering of some of these people i've met, especially in refugee camps. unbelievable what children have to see. and don't want to talk about it tonight. it's too dark. but terrible, terrible things. and actually thinking about some of the native american reservations a the fact that in the heart of this wealthy country, you get this utter poverty, this hopelessness, helplessness, the same in canada.

and suicide rate so high. and that the hopelessness, at some point, it's money. we need more money to do more things. we have to have more money. and when you have a recession, and things, it's tough. you know that. only too well. but those are the kind of things that keep me awake. >> we've acknowledged many of your heroes here tonight. but is there one hero of all time for you? >> yeah, my biggest hero is my mother. because when i was 10 years old, well, even before, when i was 1 1/2 years old, and i don't even remember this story. but i had taken worms to bed with me. and she came up and said -- instd of throwing those dirty things out she said jane, if you leave them here, they'll die. so we took them back into the garden together. and then when i was 10, and

reading about tarzan, that was when i dreamed of going to africa and living with animals and writing books about them. and obviously everybody laughed and i said already we didn't have money. and world war ii raging. there were no -- there were no 747's taking groups of people out to africa. and africa was still thought of as the dark continent. and it was filled with poisoned arrows and can balances and things like that. -- cannibals and things like that. and probably the most ridiculous thing of all about this silly dream of mine was that i was the wrong sex. girls didn't get to do that sort of thing back then. it was what boys did. and girls got married, you could perhaps be a missionary's wife or something like that. but that's probably the only way you get to live with animals in africa. except my mother. she never laughed at me and said if you really want something, and you work hard,

and you take advantage of opportunity, you never give up, you find a way. so that was how i was brought up. and i never had -- and actually nobody in the family ever said that -- well, you'll infer achieve your dream. it was always you got to work hard. and you must never give up. so when i first got -- finally got the money to go to gambi lewis leaky got the money. that's even before geographic. it was from some wealthy american businessman who got money just for six months. thank goodness geographic came in after that. and british authorities and what was then tanganika were horrified of this young girl on her own going into this potentially dangerous forest with these potentially dangerous wild animals who could tear me apart. but in the end lewis went on and on and saying she has to come. it's really important. and she must have a companion.

that same amazing mother, she left everything and came out. and it was an expedition on a shoestring. these days, you have mosquito netting and those days we had one ex-army tent between us. it had a piece of canvas on the floor. for a ground sheet. to let the air in, you rolled up the sides. tent. and of course not only air came in but snakes and spiders and scorpions and all those different things which mom was actually scared of. didn't deter her. and left her alone all day while i was up in the mountains. she was amazing. and she was the world's most famous chaperon. she didn't do a very good job, did she? [laughter]

>> we're going to need to wrap things up very shortly but i do want to ask what's next for jane goodall and the next 50 years have in store? >> well, what's next for jane goodall is, you know, growing roots and chutes. we need all the schools and countries. we only have 121 countries. and adding countries in latin america but we haven't done very well so far in the middle east. we got just one or two international schools. and there are countries where you know because i know what roots and shoots does. and rick knows what roots and shoots does to help children in disadvantaged situations. and we need roots and shoots in russia and tanzania, the roots and shoots program is bringing muslims and christians together. and we need roots and shoots in the middle east. desperately we need roots and shoots in the middle east. and i see kai nodding his head

because you know it's true. we got to grow roots and shoots. and of course we've got to save not just the gambi chimpanzees but work to help other organizations and save more chimpanzees and more rainforests across africa. and then help all the people because otherwise we'll never save the chimps. and basically what we have to do with a.g.i. is change the world and make it a better place. what's for me in the next 50 years, dying. [laughter] by the end of the next 50 years i will not be here. that's why it's really important for j.g.i. to grow and become the global organization that really can bring more of these visions into fruition. so haven't been doing this very

long, you got a big job ahead of you. and it's really lucky that we've got this great team. the j.g.i. people stood up before. but the board, it's an amazing volunteer organization. people have come wherever the board is. i've been looking for you and can't see where you are. where are you? it's a bit dark. oh, there they are. the board, and the staff. i know staff often stay way beyond the time when most people go home and put their feet up. because you can't do that when you're desperately trying to finish your grant that makes all the difference between a chimp being incarcerated for four years and being released onto an island and then the roots and shoots of the young people in roots and shoots is amazing what they're doing and what you're all doing. it's incredible. but this saying, and i get so

tired, i hear it everywhere i go somehow, somebody will talk -- say this when they're talking about youth. and that is we haven't inherited this planet from our parents. we've borrowed it from our children. you've heard that 100 times. and it's not true. because when you borrow, you plan to pay back. we have been stealing, stealing, stealing, stealing. and it's about time that we start doing something about that. and we talk about the young people taking this into their own hands because it's their future. they didn't make the mess. we made the mess. we can't expect the young people to do it on their own. they need the wisdom of the elders. recognize, roots and shoots, we're two of the he woulders without question. and kai is nodding again. you need the elders. young people have the energy and the commitment and the enthusiasm and very often the courage. but we need to do it hand in

hand. and we need to reach out to more of the grandfathers and grandmothers and get their wisdom like mark plotkin, one of our honorees, is reaching out to get that old wisdom. so basically everybody, we're in this together. and none of us can do it alone. we all need to work together. to hold hands. and what is so important to me and what's gone wrong with the planet is that we've lost wisdom. not necessarily us in this room, but by and large, the materialistic consumer-driven society that started off in the u.s. and spread to the u.k. and it is spreading -- spread across europe and it's going -- it's definitely racing across asia. and, you know, it's -- the indigenous people used to make a decision based on how does the decision we make today affect our people generations

ahead. and so often it's how does this decision either affect me now, that's very common, or how does it affect the next shareholders meeting three months ahead? that's again and again and again why we're poisoning the planet. and destroying the planet. and destroying the future from -- for our children. we're not borrowing. we're stealing. stealing and destroying. so we've all got to agree, everybody in this room, that we get together and we involve our heart as well as our head when we make decisions, and we think about how those decisions that we make every day are going to affect our children and their children, our great grandchildren. and all of them. >> that's great. we're going to end with your evening. >> oh, yes. >> but before we do i do want to thank everyone at g.w. for having us here, dr. knapp in particular, john trivis, a very

proud alum on our staff who helped pull this all together. and we also have our friends from disney nature here. and you're going to be hearing some exciting things about our relationship with disney nature in the months ahead. and with that, i think we'll end this evening. and i leave it to you. >> ok. well, it's very much like the greeting that i started with. so i'm going to do that one again. so you can hear the difference. because this, i call it the singing pantu which you hear at night when the chimpanzees are often sleeping on different sides of the valley. but they like to communicate. they like to know where each other is. so the first pantu that's like here i am, who's out there? it's -- and often ends with a scream. >> can you do that for us? >> it hurts my throat and i

won't be able to speak tomorrow. >> you have no tonsils. >> sore throat. tonsils have nothing to do with sore throats. [laughter] but anyway, the singing pantu is -- i can't do it really well. but it's -- [imitating] it's beautiful. [laughter] >> ladies and gentlemen, dr. jane goodall. [applause] thank you. thank you. >> tonight, u.n. world food program executive director joseph shirin on global food security and poverty. also, president and c.e.o. of national public radio on the

future of public radio and the ethics of war with speakers from france, england, israel, and the u.s. service academies. on this week's road to the white house, former arkansas governor and 2008 presidential candidate mike huckabee in des moines, iowa, at an event sponsored by the evangelical group family leader. he zutches the results of the 2010 elections, including the ouster of three state supreme court justices who opposed banning gay marriage. here's a look. >> it was an historic election. and not just for iowa. but for all of the country. and i want to be very candid with you tonight. there was a lot of anxiety that many of us in other parts of the country had as we watched the goings on here because one of two things would happen. if the pundits proved true, and there was a strong pushback against the conservatives of the state of iowa, and the

judges had been retained, as sort of a way of saying they can do anything they want, and there will never be a penalty for their ignoring the will and wishes of the people and their elected representatives, if that had happened, it would have been a devastating blow to conservatives and to christians and other people of value conscience in the public square. it would have had disastrous consequences. again, far beyond the borders of iowa. the fact that that election went the other way was so significant and may have been singularly the most important election that happened in america because it set the stage in every other state that those who are governing will ultimately be accountable to the governed. and that is a message that every american needs to remember and be reminded of. and i'm here to say thank you

on behalf of a grateful nation to every pastor who had the guts to stand in his pulpit and take a stand, to every lay person, to every mom, every dad, every person who walked neighborhoods and made phone calls. and made it happen. you're to be commended. and you did a great, great work for america. thank you. and god bless you. [applause] >> you can soo -- you can see the entire speech by governor and 2008 presidential candidate mike huckabee on sunday at 6:30 and 9:30 p.m. eastern time and pacific. >> the c-span video library, find a compliss list under the congress tab. every new member is listed with their district map, their campaign finances for the mid-term elections and any appearances on c-span. it's all free on your computer any time. it's washington. your way.

>> now, the executive director of the u.n. world food program. her remarks on global food security and poverty are about an hour. the national press club hosted this event. >> my name is angela keene and a reporter for bloomberg news and membership secretary of the national press club. we're the world's leading professional organization for journalists and are committed to our profession's future through our programming and by fostering a free press worldwide. for more information about the press club, please visit our website at www.press.org to donate to our program, visit www.press.org/library. on behalf of our minneapolis worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees at today's event which include guest of our speaker as well as working

journalists. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. after the speech concludes i will ask as many questions as time permits. i would now like to introduce our head table guest. from your right, if you'll stand please and as you are introduced, mike walter, president and c.e.o. of walter media, our -- washington correspondent arshad mahmoud, dan glickman, former u.s. agriculture secretary and now a senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center who's a guest of our speaker, myron bellkind, the national press club secretary and professor of journalism at the george washington university, myron is chairman. press club's international correspondents committee. richard leach, the world food program u.s.a. president and c.e.o. and a guest of our speaker, and andrew schneider, chairman of the national press club speakers committee and the associated editor -- associated tore at kiplinger and allison

fitzgerald, a reporter with bloomberg news who worked on bloomberg's recipe for famine. and lisa gillespie, managing editor of street sense and also the new media director there, andrea schneider, bloomberg news editor, geraldine ryerson cruise, the international news manager for world vision, and ed mixner editor of kiplinger agricultural letter. [applause] earlier this month, crusaders against global hunger like our speaker today received relatively good news from the united nations. the number of people experiencing hunger worldwide fell in the past year from 1.02 billion to a mere 925 million. that is the right direction. but it is little comfort to josette sheeran, executive director of the u.n. world food program. from rebuilding haiti to solving the riddle of agriculture and sub-saharan

africa, the organization sheeran leads which is the world's largest distributor of food aid to the poor is intimately involved with aiding the lives of the so-called fodam billi. this year the organization's goal is to reach more than 90 million people with food assistance in more than 70 countries. around 10,000 people work for the organization, most of them are remote areas who are directly serving the poor. it's a task that requires great logistic and diplomatic skills. a role for which our speaker is well prepared. josette sheeran became the 11th executive director of the united nations world food program in 2007. previously, she served as undersecretary for economic energy and agriculture affairs at the u.s. state department where she was responsible for economic issues including development, trade, agriculture, finance, and energy, telecommunications, and transportation. before joining ustr she was managing director of star upon the solutions, a leading wall street technology firm that works with fortune 500 clients.

and sharon's willingness to speak out on issues may come from the comfort with the media she's gained from being part of it. the former managing editor of "the washington times" served as a -- won the press award for journalistic achievement by the national order of women legislators. she is also a member of the national press club and even served on the speaker's committee which organizes the luncheon speaker series. today, she is discussing 10 ideas that can feed the world. welcome to the national press club, josette sheeran. [applause] >> well, good afternoon, everyone. it's indeed a great moment to feel like i'm coming home. back to my own roots. here at the national press club

where i spent many an hour exploring the ideas that have helped define the world that we're in today. today, we're going to talk about my optimism and why i believe we can end hunger. yes, in my lifetime. in our lifetime. and i would like to begin by taking a journey with you to the front lines of hunger. and i'm going to start with in red cup. -- with this red cup. this is a cup from our school feeding program in rwanda. but it's very representative of the fact that when we talk about 925 million people who are hungry, what that means is about one out of ever six people on earth wake up each morning and aren't sure even how to fill this cup with food. and for the children we reach, often this is the only secure access to food they have in their life. most of the people in that

number, women and children, and still today, every six seconds, a child will die from not being able to access enough food to stay alive. my own personal awakening on this issue came in 1986. i was home with my first child who was newborn. and i was watching an image on television of a mother in ethiopia whose baby was crying out, very weakly, for food. and she had no milk in her breast. and she also had no food. and i thought there can't be anything more painful than not being able to answer a child's call for food. and what struck me at the time, and now, and then, was there was enough food in the world for everyone to get access to something to eat. during the food crisis a couple years ago, there was enough food for everyone in the world

to have 2,700 kilocalories. yet a silent tsunami through tens of millions of more into abject hunger. what also struck me is the solution to hunger is not quite rocket science. many nations have unlocked the keys. many hungry nations have defeated hunger. and it doesn't require some great new scientific breakthrough like discovering a cure for rare cancer. it is on one level quite simple. people need access to an adequate amount of nutritious food. but what struck me is a nobel prize winning work exploring famines and what caused them, is actually familiarens are often caused by a lack -- famines are often caused by a

lack of access to food. in the famine he studied in bangladesh there was food. but people couldn't afford it. their livelihoods had been destroyed by the storms and other factors came together. the other thing that always strikes me is that food is good business. when nations solve the problem, it creates value in an economy. this is not permanent charity. this is not something that ultimately needs to be propped up with help. but something that creates jobs all the way through the value chain. and opportunity. so to win-win. and when you have functioning food economy, not only do you end hunger, but you create wealth. so back to this cup. as the world's largest frontline hunger agency, being on the front lines of darfur where up to -- over three million people a day need access to food, the pakistan

floods were 20 million people overnight. well, actually, over the course of a month as the floods moved down. through pakistan, with 100 water breaches, like a treen every three days. to -- like a katrina every three days. we solved the problem at the worst end of this challenge. those who may die tomorrow if they don't have an intervngs by the world. -- an intervention by the world. but i would like to speak from my vantage point that i've european a revolution -- i've seen a revolution in the way hung senior approached in the last few years and we're seeing results including the fact that the numbers this year are going in the right direction. the first drop in 15 years. and i do believe we can create sustainable models. and that new kinds of partnerships are forging and changing the face of hunger and forging solutions. that can change the dimics --

dynamics of this first millennium goal. in fact, just a few weeks ago, in rome, where our headquarters are, we had the prime minister of cape vaird in. this is a small nation off the coast of africa. other than its great resource of its people, it has no natural resources. and in fact, when it was reached independence, many predicted that it could not survive as a nation. it has droughts. it has many, many difficulties. but we celebrated cape verde graduating from needing the support of the world food program. and the fact that it will reach the millennium development goal of halfing the proportion of hunger and most of the other mellonium development goals overcoming illiteracy and hunger including with its young people. and so that hopefulness is critical.

i think we also all must be 'em bude with a strong sense -- imbued with a strong sense of purpose. it was 50 years ago this month that president eisenhower gave a speech for -- for telling the founding of the world food program and saying one of the things we learned from the marshall plan is that you can't have peace and stability without food security. and i will tell you that when i testified in the european parliament, i had this red cup, and the head of the development committee became very emotional. and he said, last time he had seen this cup was after world war ii in spain when his family was facing starvation. when i went to japan, i met with the minister there and the government. and he became very emotional over this cup and he said the last time he saw it, was after world war ii, when the united states reached out a hand of help as people faced starvation in japan. and so this cup moves through the world, transforming lives and presenting opportunity.

what we do know is that people don't have food, they only really have three options. they can migrate. they can revolt. or face starvation and death. neither of these are optimal. and so i think we must be driven with a common purpose to solve the problem. i want to just mention up front i really -- a profound thanks to the united states. since that speech by eisenhower and since the founding of food for peace by president kennedy, there has been profound leadership in the united states in fighting hunger, bipartisan agreement, and activism throughout our land. gandhi once said to a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of god and i see america inspired to really intervene when children out of living,

being born in a place with a dictatorship or a bad government or that's at war, or a victim of disasters, does not have access to that food. but in particular, i want to thank president obama. we saw a complete turnaround at the g-8 summit. to make food security the top item following the food crisis, very necessary, such is the action in 74 to rally the world behind this -- in 1974 to rally the world behind this. secretary of state clinton gave big leadership in new york. i'll talk more about that and about the particular problem of children under 2. and how to revolutionize their access to adequate nutrition. secretary of agriculture vilsack feels this very personally. in his own life, he has felt food insecurity and is a great advocate for this and the head of a.i.d., one of the most

innovative leaders we've seen on the food security issues. and i just want to recognize a number of people from the department of agriculture, a.i.d., john brouse who has been a leader in this and the whole team is here today. but also on capitol hill, joanne emerson, mcgovern, delauro, senators durbin, cole, brownback, pack, roberts, all of these people are actually known in the field and i was in a school in kenya. and i just stopped by a third grade class, to -- and asked if they had any questions and a little girl said, how is mcgovern dole? and i said how is what? and she said mcgovern dole, is he ok? because if not, i can't go to school. and i thought wow, and i talked about this as a powerful far off tribe that can help them.

but the connection is so profound to the lives of those children. the u.s. is first in fighting hunger in the world. and i will just say that 70% of those reached in darfur were reached by the united states. and i will not dwell on it here. but there has been a retooling of the way the united states reaches the hungry with food and in you are a world, where we are in such deep partnership, we've seen the lead time and the ability to reach those on the frontline with the contributions from -- reduced to three days in pakistan. very quick action. and again, innovations by the team and by everyone working on this. but today, i want to talk about 10 actions that really are new approaches. that can help unleash permanent solutions to food. i will just say because i have

friends here from the agricultural business. i'm not talking about the input side. the access side to food. i will presume we will all take care of the need for greater production. it's very important. and our partners at f.a.o. and efed work on this. the first is the world's commitment to humanitarian action. the change of approach in that action is very critical. today, we can say with pretty much accuracy that we have tools that will respond with the appropriate action in a humanitarian situation. if it's a place like darfur where there is no food, we will bring in the food. if ints a place like some plachese in haiti right -- some places in haiti right now where there are food markets after the rth quake but people have no cash, we can bring in a voucher or cash. we can do humanitarian action even up front in a way that will support the recovery of markets and be sensitive to

their strengths. it's dangerous action. a couple of summers ago, 34 of our drivers were kidnapped and missing in action in darfur. we lose people regularly. i lost one of our staff trying to fill this exact type of cup in somalia and was shot right through the head. trying to do so. why? because some people would prefer that people don't get access to food. so this is a very important protection action. we need the support of the world. every penny we raise is voluntarily raised. but if we can prevent people from falling through the floor of resiliency, selling off all their cattle, selling off their homes, pulling kids out of school, they'll do anything to eat. if we can prevent that, and that's what emergency action does, it saves lives and protects livelihoods, this is the foundation for recovery and long-term sustainability. the second thing i would like to mention is the power of

school meals. this is a very simple idea that the united states really brought to the world. that if you provide a cup of food in school, you provide a safety net for children that is affordable, and that has so many other benefits. particularly for girls. we see in our school feeding programs around the world that if you put a cup of food in school, and attach a take home ration for perfect attendance, such as a bag of rice, or one jug of oil, something the u.s. has supported, around the world, the numbers of girls in school will skyrocket and in places where girls don't go to school, their parents are suddenly ordering them to go to school for the economic benefit. it helps the family. so the girl's job is to go to school and meanwhile she's learning. if we sustain that, she will